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Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. To "Why am I here?" To uselessness. It's the streami... - MORE Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. To "Why am I here?" To uselessness. It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it's a cactus.

Enid Bagnold

writers and writing

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This is the dead land
This is cactus land... - MORE This is the dead land
This is cactus land
Here the stone images
Are raised, here they receive
The supplication of a dead man's hand
Under the twinkle of a fading star.

T.S. Eliot

landscapes

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My bones denounce the buckboard bounce and the cactus hurts my toes. My bones denounce the buckboard bounce and the cactus hurts my toes.

Ray Evans

West, the (U.S.) | cactus

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What do we want with this vast and worthless area, of this region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts, of shifting sands and wh... - MORE What do we want with this vast and worthless area, of this region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts, of shifting sands and whirlwinds, of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs; to what use could we ever hope to put these great deserts, or those endless mountain ranges, impenetrable and covered to their very base with eternal snow? What can we ever hope to do with the western coast, a coast of 3,000 miles, rockbound, cheerless, uninviting and not a harbor in it?

for the State of Kansas

West, the (U.S.)

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tribal sentience
in the cactus, focused
energy of will. tribal sentience
in the cactus, focused
energy of will.

Robert Earl Hayden

flowers

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In the capsule biography by which most of the people knew one another, I was understood to be an Air Force pilot whose family was ... - MORE In the capsule biography by which most of the people knew one another, I was understood to be an Air Force pilot whose family was wealthy and lived in the East, and I even added the detail that I had a broken marriage and drank to get over it.... I sometimes believed what I said and tried to take the cure in the very real sun of Desert D'Or with its cactus, its mountain, and the bright green foliage of its love and its money.

Norman Mailer

biography

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Rearing three children is like growing a cactus, a gardenia, and a tubful of impatiens. Each needs varying amounts of water, sunli... - MORE Rearing three children is like growing a cactus, a gardenia, and a tubful of impatiens. Each needs varying amounts of water, sunlight and pruning. Were I to be absolutely fair, I would have to treat each child as if he or she were absolutely identical to the other siblings, and there would be no profit for anyone in that.

Phyllis Theroux

childraising | gardens and gardening

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